In brief:

I'm a redheaded mama with four lovely daughters. We're based in southern Australia and travel in a small, colourful housebus — meeting inspiring people, learning lots and re-thinking everything. I feel passionately about spirituality, good design, alternative education, discussing death and conscious parenting.

Earrings for little ones

Now that Calista’s ears are properly healed, I’ve been able to change her earrings into my preferred style — labrets.

Labret earrings have a flat disk that sits at the back of the ear. The front ball screws onto the post, so you have to put them into the ear-holes from the back.

I’d highly recommend this style of earrings for any small children. Labrets are traditionally for face-piercing — usually below the lips, but there’s no reason why they can’t work as earrings.

If you lose one — or just the front of one labret — it’s easy to replace. Piercing studios sell individual posts and balls, so you could change the jewel colour without replacing the posts.

I’ve bought labrets at a tattoing/piercing studio in the city, though I got these online with another set as a spare. They’re not very expensive and yet so child-friendly.

Modelling her new earrings (why is my spellcheck trying to tell me it should be written as "modeling"?). I tried styling Calista's hair with some conditioner — not nearly as interesting as the Einstein look!